Gunboat 62, wicked fast too

... written for Panbo by Ben Ellison and posted on Mar 31, 2006

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How about a 62’ sailing cat with an interior like a sleek apartment and the performance of a carbon racer? Sailing Anarchy has the story here, including a larger version of the picture above, in which you can better see all the Raymarine electronics. I’ll bet those big displays are E-120s, which have XVGA out ports, and thus that 42” LCD TV may be be set up to repeat one of the E screens. I’ve seen a Gunboat 42’ in a stiff breeze on Chesapeake Bay and she was flying. Check out the video at the company site.

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Another good site to look at if you want to see the Gunboat 62 in action is Safaricharter.com, where they have a great video of Safari, a Gunboat 62 cat, blowing the doors off of a Reichel Pugh 80.

Posted by: Adrift At Sea at March 31, 2006 10:31 PM | Reply

Yes very impressive. Although you would think they would fix the jib leach flutter. I give the nod to the RP80 on a W/L course.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 31, 2006 11:11 PM | Reply

So where does the helm sit? The sofa seat back look a bit uncomfortable!

Posted by: Terry at April 2, 2006 1:47 AM | Reply

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